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3/2/15 In 2013, Scott Walker said that a plan providing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants requiring a penalty and a waiting period ““makes sense.”>.” Now, with fresh momentum from a month of good poll numbers in the 2016 Republican presidential race and a second place finish over the weekend in the mostly meaningless CPAC Conference straw poll, Walker realized he better get right on immigration with the Republican Party base. In a Fox News interview yesterday, Walker said, “My view has changed. I’m flat out saying it.” He now says such a plan amounts to amnesty. “I don’t believe in amnesty.” This flip-flop may help Walker in the Republican Primaries. It will be a huge advantage for the Democratic candidate in the general election if Walker is the nominee.

4/2/14 “I don’t get it. Why are folks working so hard for people not to have health insurance? Why are they so mad about the idea of people having health insurance?” –President Obama speaking yesterday about the success of the Affordable Care Act, as sign-ups for coverage exceeded seven million at the deadline.

Democrats should be asking their opponents this question over and over again for the next seven months before the midterm elections in November. Why indeed?

4/1/14 Before the Affordable Care Act, American health care was a national disgrace, with 45 million people uninsured and more than 120 people dying every day because they lacked insurance. We still have a long way to go, but Obamacare, in its first year of full implementation, has already cut the uninsured rate by about 20%. A new study finds that at least 9.5 million Americans who were previously without health insurance are now covered because of the new law. Do Republicans who have voted to repeal the ACA more than 50 times really want to take insurance away from millions of Americans who now have it for the first time? Obamacare will save lives and it’s time for Democrats to stand up and say so.

2/17/14 With control of the U.S. Senate at stake in the 2014 Midterm Elections, and with long-time Democratic Senator Carl Levin retiring, polls show a close race for his Michigan Senate seat. Republican Terri Lynn Land holds a narrow lead over the presumptive Democratic candidate, three-term Congressman Gary Peters. Michigan voters need to know where Land stands on the issues! She supports turning Medicare into a voucher program, privatizing Social Security and banning abortion even in the cases of rape, incest or life of the mother. Land also opposed the measure that ended last year’s GOP government shutdown, which cost the economy $24 billion. Hopefully Peters and the Democrats will make all this very clear to Michigan voters by Election Day.

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2/15/12 As Rachel Maddow said last night on her show, “Republicans in Virginia want a government so big that it can literally get inside individual citizens genitals by force and without their consent.” The Virginia House passed a bill yesterday mandating that women seeking an abortion must first undergo an invasive trans-vaginal ultrasound—a probe inserted into the vagina. Traditional ultrasounds cannot produce a clear image of the fetus at the early stage of pregnancy when the vast majority of abortions take place. The Virginia Senate has already passed this measure and Governor Bob McDonnell has promised to sign it. The state up in armsabout a health insurance mandate will now require a woman to submit to a vaginal probe against her will.